Use of IA for PR - my POV

[Julian Fondren]

On Tuesday, 10 February 2026 at 17:38:40 UTC, matheus wrote:
> I remember a DConf with Scott Meyers where they talked about 
> the language that would Kill "C", and I'm starting to think 
> that AI could kill any language.

Some of the very worst tech ever made has as its primary feature 
that it doesn't require a programmer, and invariably the result 
is so difficult that you still need a programmer, but now your 
programmer doesn't have any of the tooling or standards or 
documentation that programmers expect. Google has a SOAR solution 
for example that has a log-parsing configuration language which 
is a Lovecraftian sanity-threatening horror to contemplate, and 
everywhere in admin IT there are enormous "configurations" with 
inscrutable mutating state.

With even the worst desktop AI, like a two-year-old model running 
in ollama, there's no longer any plausible reason for any of this 
garbage to exist. You can't tell a fable anymore about how domain 
experts can "just" edit some JSON instead of touch code, because 
AI would let anyone work with a configuration library used by a 
standard programming language, and easier and faster and more 
reliably than it can help with these NIH DSLs.

For this reason I'm mostly optimistic about AI killing languages. 
Like a fever, or a mild poison, it'll kill this stuff first.

That it makes legacy code easier to escape is a good thing for 
better languages, and it doesn't seem to have been bad enough at 
less-popular languages to provoke a Python rewrite of the dlang 
forums.